Preface -- Keynotes -- National mastitis control schemes: experiences from implementation of a nationwide scheme in Great Britain -- Countdown Downunder: development led innovation in a national mastitis control program -- The role of economics in motivating farmers to improve udder health -- Effective communication to improve udder health: can social science help? -- Part 1. Udder health programs and campaigns -- Effects of health and welfare planning on the use of antibiotics and udder health in European dairy farms -- The Danish udder health campaign: our milk - a pure pleasure -- 'DEMO project udder health': a first step towards a better udder health and milk quality in Flanders (Belgium) -- Improvement of udder health following implementation of herd health plans in organic dairy farms: results of a pilot study in Germany -- The effect of a national control program on mastitis occurrence in the Netherlands -- €uroMilk mastitis control programme - a pilot study -- CellCheck-a national initiative -- Preventive animal health concepts in organic dairy farming: results of an interdisciplinary intervention study on mastitis and metabolic disorders in Germany -- Online mastitis survey in Flanders, Belgium: first descriptive results -- Part 2. New approaches in mastitis control -- Bulk milk quality: can it be improved by dairy farm audits? -- Internet data services from maritime quality milk: tools for tracking milk quality -- Systems analysis of high somatic cell counts on dairy farms -- Part 3. Motivation and communication strategies -- A Bayesian approach demonstrating that incorporation of practitioners' clinical beliefs into research design is crucial for effective knowledge transfer -- Enhancing udder health with clinical communication skills: evidence based communication frameworks for the 22 century -- Udder health management improvement: Insights from agent-based modeling -- Usage of milking gloves and teat sealer on German dairy farms -- Communication research from other healthcare disciplines and its application to udder-health management -- Attitudes with regard to animal management of farmers with an automatic milking system and their relationship with udder health -- Farmer-veterinarian communication in the new Danish herd health program: changing responsibilities in relation to mastitis treatment and udder health promotion -- Dairy farmers' knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards udder health in Switzerland -- Impact of communication strategies for milkers on udder health program -- Part 4. The effective advisor -- Potentials and limitations of systematic clinical examinations in farmer-veterinarian collaboration for improved udder health in the new Danish herd health program -- Veterinary on-farm counselling on dairy farms: the veterinarians' vision -- Organizing external communication in the veterinary practice -- Presenting uncertainty and variability to the decision maker: A computer program that uses Monte Carlo simulations to improve the management of the dry period -- Dairy farmer and the veterinarian: an issue of communication -- Part 5. Training to improve udder health -- Bilingual trainings for milkers in New York State: a success for quality milk -- A coordinated udder health training strategy in Quebec, Canada -- Focus courses -- Part 6. Economics -- Ex-ante assessment of profitability of a new control plan for mastitis as a motivation tool for dairy farmers -- Costs and benefits of mastitis management measures on individual dairy farms -- Estimating the impact of mastitis on the profitability of Irish dairy farms -- The effect of udder health on cow fertility: understanding the costs -- A partial budget analysis to estimate the economics of a mastitis vaccination program -- Determination of economic loss from depressed udder health -- Part 7. Mastitis diagnostics -- Characterization of MRSA from bulk tank milk of dairy herds using a commercial microarray -- Mastitis diagnostics: qPCR for Staphylococcus aureus genotype B in bulk tank milk -- Identification of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species by gas chromatography -- Real time PCR values for mastitis pathogens - relations to milk quality and herd characteristics in Danish dairy herds -- The use of strain typing as an on farm tool to highight particular points of interest in the control of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis -- Estimation of the diagnostic accuracy of a multiplex real-time PCR assay and bacteriological culture for four bovine intramammary pathogens -- Part 8. Treatment -- Promoting judicious antibiotic use: On-farm culture-based treatment strategies -- Efficacy of the selective treatment of clinical mastitis based on on-farm culture results -- Field study on acute mastitis with SIRS and different treatment regimes -- Efficacy of two fresh cow subclinical mastitis treatment programs -- Effect of the combination of Tylan 200R & Penicillin G in the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis -- Use of Tylan 200R for the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis -- Therapeutic effects of lactation treatment of bovine subclinical Staphylococcus aureus mastitis with penicillin -- In vitro activity profile of a kanamycin and cefalexin combination against coagulasenegative staphylococci and correlation between MIC and disk zone sizes -- Part 9. Treatment evaluation -- Monitoring treatment outcomes: understanding and managing expectations -- Use of in-line measurements of somatic cell count to evaluate treatment efficacy of subclinical bovine Staphylococcus aureus mastitis -- 'Therapy evaluation': a useful tool for practitioners -- Dynamics of udder infection and effect of dry cow therapy validated by test day samples -- Part 10. Infectious pressure -- Subclinical mastitis in Dutch dairy heifers in early lactation and associated risk factors -- Risk factors associated with bacteriological quality of bulk tank milk in the Netherlands -- The efficacy of two iodine teat dips based on naturally occurring new intramammary infections -- Manageable risk factors associated with incidence and elimination of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections -- Factors influencing average herd somatic cell count in France in 2005 and 2006 -- Risk factors associated with intramammary infections caused by the more pathogenic CNS-species -- Management of udder-thigh dermatitis on dairy cattle: epidemiological and bacteriological data -- Survey of bulk tank milk from all Danish dairy herds in 2009 and 2010 with realtime PCR -- Bedding conditioners for reduction of infectious pressure by mastitis pathogens -does their use make sense? -- Epidemiological and microbiological characteristics of Streptococcus uberis as mastitis pathogen in Swiss dairy herds -- Part 11. Host resistance -- Immunological response to an experimental intramammary inoculation with a killed Staphylococcus aureus strain in vaccinated and non-vaccinated lactating dairy cows -- Feasibility of high immune response (HIR) technology as a health management tool to characterize immune response profiles of dairy cattle -- Polymorphism screening and association study of CXCR1 with udder health in dairy heifers -- Genomic regions associated with somatic cell score in dairy cattle -- Efficacy of a Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-embedded bacterin against coagulasenegative staphylococci intramammary infections in dairy cows -- Effect of introducing OrbeSeal into a dry cow management programme and the impact on farm economics -- Part 12. Milking machine and milking technique -- Udder health in herds with automatic milking -- Alert preferences of dairy farmers working with automatic milking systems -- The role of sensor measurements in treating mastitis on farms with an automatic milking system -- Influence of milk yield and take-off settings on milking parlour performance and udder health -- Bacterial migration through teat canal related to liner action -- Classification of mouthpiece chamber vacuum records in milking-time tests -- Key messages for an efficient udder preparation routine -- Effects of material, shape and mouthpiece venting on liner performance -- Wearing gloves for milking in Western New York: To wear or not to wear? -- New technology for vacuum-logging during milking helps advisor -- The world of post milking teat disinfectants: features, uses and risks -- Index -- Authors.